Andre Charigny (French, 1902-2000)
Flowers in a Blue Stoneware Jug
Oil on hardboard

Signed lower left Charigny, in red. 25 x 21 inches (64 x 53 cm), the frame 32 ½ x 27 ¾ inches (83 x 70 cm). Carved Montparnasse frame. Good original condition, no visible losses.

The jug is the only cool thing in the picture. Everything around it is yellow, orange and brown, and the blue and white stoneware sits at the center like a hole cut in the warmth.

Garden flowers stand in the jug on a table, white daisies above, yellow and orange heads massed at the center, a few reds at the right. Two green apples and a red one lie beside it, with a terracotta pot behind and a grey book propped at the right. The paint is laid on thick and wet into wet, each petal a single loaded stroke, and the warm table carries its shadows in green and violet.